Impact analysis is needed for the planning and estimation of software maintenance projects. Traditional impact analysis techniques tend to be too expensive for this phase, so ther...
The paper presents the implementation of a railway control system, as a means of assessing the potential of coordination languages to be used for modelling software architectures f...
FShell is an automated white-box test-input generator for C programs, computing test data with respect to user-specified code coverage criteria. The pillars of FShell are the decl...
Andreas Holzer, Daniel Kroening, Christian Schallh...
Ownership types provide a statically enforceable way of specifying object encapsulation and enable local reasoning about program correctness in object-oriented languages. However,...
Chandrasekhar Boyapati, Barbara Liskov, Liuba Shri...
We give examples of situations where formal specifications of procedures in the standard pre/postcondition style become lengthy, cumbersome and difficult to change, a problem whic...
Alexander Borgida, John Mylopoulos, Raymond Reiter